Book Quote by Desiderius Erasmus Download Open image “Do not be guilty of possessing a library of learned books while lacking learning yourself.” — Desiderius Erasmus ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 2.3 out of 5 (10 ratings) Copy quoteShare Book Books Christianity Education Guilty Lacking Learning Library Possessing
I don't like books that seem to want to teach me things. Which is not to say that one doesn't learn from books -… — Salman Rushdie Copy Share Image
“Problem with being a librarian is there's some lessons you just can't learn from books.” — Jay Kristoff Copy Share Image
“Having a nice library doesn’t make you smart. Don’t buy books and stack them up in your library; read them.” — Mensah Oteh Copy Share Image
“You don't spend your life hanging around books without learning a thing or two.” — Lemony Snicket Copy Share Image
I spent all my time at school in the library. Bad teachers can teach you to learn on your own. — Gregory Colbert Copy Share Image
“Learning is acquired by reading books, but the much more necessary learning, the knowledge of the world is only to be acquired by reading… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
There are two things in your life which no one can take from you. One is your education, and the other is your body.… — Sangram Singh Copy Share Image
Don't buy a book if you think that it can make you educated only by reading it. — Vikrant Parsai Copy Share Image
Learning from books is so empowering - whether it be from history, a novel or a poem. When you come away from reading having… — Lisa Lucas Copy Share Image
They may attack me with an army of six hundred syllogisms; and if I do not recant, they will proclaim me a heretic. — Desiderius Erasmus Copy Share Image
The entire world is my temple, and a very fine one too, if I'm not mistaken, and I'll never lack priests to serve it… — Desiderius Erasmus Copy Share Image
A good prince will tax as lightly as possible those commodities which are used by the poorest members of society: grain, bread, beer, wine,… — Desiderius Erasmus Copy Share Image
Christians would show sense if they dispatched these argumentative Scotists and pigheaded Ockhamists and undefeated Albertists along with the whole regiment of Sophists to… — Desiderius Erasmus Copy Share Image
When I get a little money I buy books; and if any is left I buy food and clothes. — Desiderius Erasmus Copy Share Image
From hence, no question, has sprung an observation ... confirmed now into a settled opinion, that some long experienced souls in the world, before… — Desiderius Erasmus Copy Share Image
Nothing is so foolish, they say, as for a man to stand for office and woo the crowd to win its vote, buy its… — Desiderius Erasmus Copy Share Image
I think a new world will arise out of the religious mists when we approach our Bible with the idea that it is not… — Aiden Wilson Tozer Copy Share Image
If I had a dollar for every time I couldn’t sleep, I could buy a billion locks and finally read a book in peace. — Aesop Rock Copy Share Image
Young men, especially in America, write to me and ask me to recommend “a course of reading.” Distrust a course of reading! People who… — Andrew Lang Copy Share Image
I have many who keep me going, I am very fortunate in this sense. There is nothing like a child who knows more about… — Floyd Cooper Copy Share Image
I think books in which people are really happy and things are going well are probably the most challenging novels there are to write,… — Anna Quindlen Copy Share Image
It's like the query letter problem that I just mentioned, magnified a hundredfold. You might be good at telling a story, but that doesn't… — Patrick Rothfuss Copy Share Image
I don't think I have made as much of my life as I should have. I should have written more books. — Arthur M. Schlesinger, Jr Copy Share Image
Some books are not read in the right way because they have skipped a stage of opinion, assume a crystallization of information in society… — Doris Lessing Copy Share Image
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The purpose of this book is to supply, in the form suitable for laymen, guidance in the adoption and execution of an investment policy. — Benjamin Graham Copy Share Image